...In the end, he makes it to Drezen just in time for it to be opened to regular visitors with no particular affiliation with Drezen's army.

But hey, at least that means the crusaders won!

He's frankly a little embarrassed, but that's not going to stop him from doing his job.

Is there anyone he can speak to about getting an interview with the Knight-Commander? He completely understands if that is not possible; presumably she has a number of demands on her time.

Oh, he just goes to the citadel and tells them why he's there, and if it's important enough someone will let the Knight-Commander know.

...Alright, he will do that. Before he leaves, can he pick up any rumors about the Knight-Commander, her companions, or the miracle of Kenabres?

Always!!!

In addition to being blessed by Iomedae, the Knight-Commander is also blessed by Desna, who did a miracle to save her life in Drezen, and now she's followed around by magic butterflies. No, Desna and Calistria are lovers and that's why Desna sent the butterflies. No, the idea of her being a Calistrian cleric was just a bluff to trick the demons, she's secretly been a Desnan the whole time. No, the butterflies aren't Desnan, do they also think every random snake is Asmodean? Iomedae can send butterflies if she wants to. No, the butterflies are an illusion. No, Desna did a miracle, but the main point of the miracle was to purge the Sword of Valor of demonic corruption, the butterflies are just a side effect. Or, uh, the Tree of Valor? Whatever they're supposed to call it now. No, she's got butterflies the same reason Ember's always got birds following her around, animals can sense what's in your heart and they like to follow the virtuous. No, if that were true Irabeth would definitely be a horse paladin, right?

She's the reincarnation of Iomedae. It's obvious if you look at any of the contemporary artwork made during the Shining Crusade and adjust for the Knight-Commander's age. She's a Calistrian cleric rather than a Lawful Good paladin because Iomedae thought winning was the most important thing and you can't win if you get hung up with following all the stupid paladin rules. No offense to present company, of course, but, well, it's not like anyone would put him in charge of an army.

She's been secretly working with a DRAGON this whole time. 

She's been secretly working with Terendelev, specifically, this whole time (she faked her death).

A noblewoman came from Mendev this morning to demand that she hand over someone who killed her... brother? uncle? something like that, who's now serving with the Crusade, but the Knight-Commander is so committed to mercy and redemption that she insisted on protecting the repentant murderer-knight, even though the treaty probably would have allowed her to hand her over. It's really great that she believes in giving people a second chance as long as they're willing to change their ways!

...Is the Knight-Commander known for being particularly committed to redemption?

Well, she's got that Abyss-spawn thief in her party? But anyways, why else would she have spared that knight?

He doesn't mean to give offense, but he had heard the Knight-Commander was an avenger of Calistria, and in his homeland Calistrians are not generally known for their dedication to mercy and redemption.

...This person is pretty sure Calistria's the goddess of really hating demons and wanting to hurt them, but like, Chaotically. (As opposed to Iomedae, who's the goddess of hating demons and wanting to hurt them Lawfully.) 

That is not generally how Iomedae is understood in his homeland, but he didn't mean to interrupt. What else do people have to say?

She led the charge at Drezen! It was really cool! Then this person lost track of her though, there were kind of a lot of things going on. Someone thinks she killed a balor. Someone thinks she killed Minagho. Someone thinks she killed that rat Staunton Vhane. Someone thinks she killed Deskari. Someone thinks she killed Kabriri. Someone thinks she killed a whole horde of shadow-demons. 

Her adventuring companion Woljif was tragically killed in the gargoyle attack. No, he was thankfully killed, do you want thieves on the crusade? No, he wasn't killed at all, he just deserted, but what do you expect from a tiefling? No, he's alive and still with the Crusade, he's just in hiding, but don't say that where the demons can hear. (Wary glance at Karnel.)

During the Miracle at Kenabres she turned into a dragon and ate Minagho, and that dirty traitor Staunton, and possibly Deskari. Staunton came back as a demon during the siege of Drezen though, usually it would take a bit but he's just so awful that he became a demon right away.

She's actually been adventuring with the Queen the whole time, everyone thought the paladin Seelah was just a regular paladin but right before Drezen she revealed that this had actually been a magical disguise. (She didn't lie, obviously, it's not lying to look like a totally different person.) No, don't be ridiculous, the Queen teleported in from Nerosyan right before the Battle of Drezen. No, the person claiming to be the Queen was actually the new fox wizard girl in disguise. No, that would definitely be illegal.

Cheliax tried to kill her, twice, even though there's a treaty. (No, come on, obviously it wasn't Cheliax, it was just the demons. No, she was betrayed by Woljif. No, she was betrayed by Nurah, did everyone miss the part where she got dragged off to prison???)

Eventually he will head over to the citadel.

The citadel wants to take a few precautions before admitting him, mostly designed to make sure he's not secretly plotting to assassinate her or something, but then they will let him in. (Their precautions are less thorough than Lastwall's typically are, and probably insufficient to stop a dedicated cultist.)

...The Knight-Commander is actually out at the moment but she was supposed to be back later today, is he alright with waiting or does he want to come back later?

He'll wait. In theory, he could use this time to conduct other relevant interviews, or collect more rumors, but he doesn't think it's worth cutting a few hours from a multi-day endeavor when it might risk missing the chance to speak to the Knight-Commander.

Then eventually, he's informed that the Knight-Commander will see him now and escorted to another room.

The Knight-Commander is easy to identify, unless they're actively trying to deceive him, though she's not wearing a symbol of rank; there's only one person in the room with a Calistrian holy symbol, and also she's surrounded by butterflies. (Also, he would probably know by now if she were an orc, a golem, or a dragon, which narrows things down a bit.) She looks all of about sixteen years old. 

"Hi, I'm Justice! Welcome to Drezen, what brings you here?"

...Why is the Knight-Commander a teenager. Who thought this was a good idea — Queen Galfrey, obviously, but why—

He has a job to do. He can save his assessment of the merits of appointing a (Chelish? Andoren?) Calistrian teenager to lead the Fifth Mendevian Crusade for one of the appendices.

"It's an honor to meet you, Knight-Commander. I am Ser Karnel Rabassa, Knight of Lastwall, hoping to secure your permission to interview you as part of our investigation of the miracle at Kenabres, and potentially later events."

Something in her expression shifts, becoming a bit more — guarded, maybe? Whatever it is, it doesn't seem like she's particularly trying to hide it.

"I see," she says. "What exactly would that involve?"

(Oh, he's from Lastwall. She feels a little better about Lastwall's current priorities (if not their competence) given how close the demons got to just straight-up blowing up the Wardstone line, but her issues with everything they've done before that point still exist, not to mention all the additional concerning facts she's learned about their justice system since she started having to sort of be in charge of one. And he's a paladin, presumably of Iomedae, so she can't tell him anything really secret, not unless she wants to swear him to a bunch of totally unreasonable conditions about who he talks to. 

Also, she's not actually sure what an incident report... is.)

Right, he's in Mendev. "Are you familiar with the procedures of the Church of Iomedae in Lastwall concerning direct and abnormal interventions by the Goddess?"

Why do Iomedaeans talk like that. There's more than one Goddess!!

"...No. I'm not from Lastwall." 

"It is a teaching of our church that every intervention costs the Goddess resources, which she could have put to use elsewhere were her intervention unnecessary. When she performs an unusual direct miracle — that is, any miracle beyond simply empowering someone — we prefer to investigate the circumstances under which it occurred, in case with greater foresight we could have avoided her intervention becoming necessary, and write a report with guidance to hopefully avoid such circumstances in the future. We also write reports about major errors by the Church or by Iomedae's empowered faithful, with a similar goal.

I would like to privately interview you about the miracle at Kenabres, and I suspect also about the more recent miracle." Presumably it isn't Iomedaean, but it seems likely that Iomedaeans could have prevented what must be an exorbitant use of intervention budget on Desna's part.

Did they write one about Hulrun — that would be a great insult but it would not actually be a good idea to say it out loud.

Lastfolk can be frustrating, but she doesn't actually want them to be less competent. He's probably going to be really annoying but she kind of has to work with annoying people, if she kicked people out of the Crusade just for being annoying they probably wouldn't even have reached Drezen.

"If you want a private interview we'll want you to go through some extra security." She glances at Anevia. "But I should be free after that. Uh, and there's some things that might be relevant that are secret, sorry." 

"I want to talk to the funny knight too!!"

(The dragon is about the size of a housecat.)

That's kind of surprising and she's a little worried about what Aivu is planning to do, but she's not going to try to stop her from talking.

"Aivu showed up at the same time as the butterflies," she says to Ser Rabassa, giving Aivu a little scritch on her head. "She's from Elysium."